13 Web Pages

When we dub a program a GNU package, we list its GNU home page, named package in ‘https://www.gnu.org/software/’, on https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html and https://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html. To avoid broken links, the webmasters create a temporary home page as follows:

• If there is a Savannah project for this package (see Hosting for Web Pages), the temporary home page redirects to the project’s main page, ‘https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/package’, where a short description should be available.
• Otherwise, the webmasters make a simple home page containing the short description provided with the original submission of the package to GNU.

This temporary home page ought to be replaced with the real one as soon as possible.

Some GNU packages have just simple web pages, but the more information you provide, the better. So please write as much as you usefully can, and put all of it on www.gnu.org. However, pages that access databases (including mail archives and bug tracking) are an exception; set them up on whatever site is convenient for you, and make the pages on www.gnu.org link to that site.

Your web pages should follow our usual standards (see https://www.gnu.org/server/fsf-html-style-sheet.html). The overall goals are to support a wide variety of browsers, to focus on information rather than visual adornments, and to keep gnu.org/software/ consistent on certain important points.

We encourage you to use the standard www.gnu.org template as the basis for your pages: https://www.gnu.org/server/standards/boilerplate-source.html. This template changes slightly from time to time for various reasons. If a change affects existing web pages, the webmasters will inform you; then you can make the change or they can.

Please follow the best practices of accessibility in your web pages (see https://www.gnu.org/accessibility/accessibility.html).